Dianne Post

Dianne Post graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 with a BA in correctional administration, from California State University, San Jose in 1973 with an MS in psychology, and from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1979 with a J.D. She has worked in fields, in factories, in stores, and in a trucking company – the only thing she never did was waitressing, though she was a bartender! As a lawyer, she represented battered women and children for 18 years and then moved to international human rights doing gender-based violence work and representing the Roma to the current day. She was active in the LGBT movement for years until they lost their way. She is currently facilitator for the Central AZ National Lawyers Guild, treasurer for Central Phoenix Inez Casiano NOW, facilitator for Arizona Justice Alliance, legislative liaison for State NOW, and on the ERA Task Force AZ board. In her spare time, she grows organic vegetables and reads.

Best and Worst States to Work in – Three guesses where Arizona is

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Oxfam has put out their fifth annual report on the best and worst states to work in, including the 50 states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico. They added a new feature this year to compare the rankings to additional measures of well-being, including: The hypothesis was that when companies and governments invest in workers, not … Read more

The End of Affirmative Action is not the End of the Road.

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Since the supreme court decision in Students for Fair Admission Inc. v. Harvard, much of the response has been over the top hysteria having no relation to what the court actually said. Many schools, businesses, and organizations are running scared and taking dramatic steps to avoid violating what they perceive or were told the decision was.  Most … Read more

Violence is as American as Apple Pie

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“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”   Plato, The Republic. A seeming increase in violence by white supremacists and nationalists is of great concern as they attack school boards, threaten city and county officials, defame election volunteers, dox grand jurors, and shoot homeowners who display … Read more

Children – The Next Ones in the MAGA Meat Grinder

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The Arkansas governor signed a bill to allow children as young as 14 to work without parental consent. The immigration system lost 85,000 teens many of whom are suspected to have been victims of labor trafficking. The Nebraska governor says we need to force women to have more babies, so we have little white workers … Read more